Typhoon Kills At Least 21 In China
Denise Royal - All Headline News Staff Writer
Shanghai, China (AHN) - A powerful typhoon pummeled southern China on Thursday, killing at least 21 people and leaving 27 Vietnamese fishermen missing after their boats sank in Chinese waters. Typhoon Chanchu, which brought heavy rain and winds up to 106 miles per hour, made landfall between the cities of Shantou and Xiamen and worked its way up the coast early on Thursday. Chanchu, which was downgraded to a tropical storm, has killed more than 60 people in Asia, including 37 last weekend in the Philippines, where it destroyed thousands of homes. It was the strongest typhoon on record to enter the South China Sea in the month of May. The storm triggered house collapses and landslides in Guandgong's Shantou city. The weather in Shanghai -- China's commercial and financial hub -- eased on Friday as the typhoon weakened, after bringing heavy rain and gusting winds in what officials said was the season's earliest typhoon to affect the city in 80 years.
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